Your Super Powers!: A Master Class in Using the Magic Within

By Joseph Murphy

YOU ARE MORE POWERFUL THAN YOU’VE EVER REALIZED

We are raised to believe in strict limits on who we are. But there is a greater truth—and a greater you. In Your Super Powers!, Joseph Murphy, the groundbreaking author of The Power of Your Subconscious Mind, teaches you how to take a whole new measure of your abilities. You have no limits. Murphy writes, other than those imposed by your thoughts: new ideas are transformative power that reshape your existence.

In seven selected writings, Murphy reveals the powers of your mind waiting to be refined, honed, and used, so that you can knowingly shape your world, rather than be shaped by chronic, rambling, and runaway thoughts. The very hunger that you feel for change is what sets your self-discovery in motion.

This collection, part of a new series called Joseph Murphy’s Golden Lessons, is edited and introduced by popular voice of esoteric spirituality Mitch Horowitz. It includes Mitch’s short bio of Murphy and a timeline of the teacher’s life. “Desire, need, hunger—do you feel these things right now”, Mitch askes in his introduction. “You must if you picked up this book. Good. Those are the impulses that summon you to your super-self.”

• Language: English
• Publisher: G&D Media
• Release date: Jun 23, 2021
• ISBN: 9781722526764

Joseph Murphy

Joseph Murphy wrote, taught, counseled, and lectured to thousands of people all over the world, as Minister-Director of the Church of Divine Science in Los Angeles. His lectures and sermons were attended by thousands of people every Sunday. Millions of people tuned in his daily radio program and have read the over 30 books that he has written.

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PREFACE:

WE HAVE FORGOTTEN WHO WE ARE

We have forgotten who we are, and we are trying to remember.

This how Joseph Murphy frames humanity’s predicament in the essay that opens this collection.

Murphy dedicated his long career to awakening readers and listeners from their slumber—from their forgetfulness that, as beings fashioned in the image of Infinite Mind or whatever term one uses for the force of creativity, they, too, are beings capable of creation, causation, and even world-making.

Murphy saw life as a master class in the experience of realizing, or recalling, yourself as a creative being. He saw death not as an end but an enteral return to the source of Higher Mind from which all things emerge.

In this collection, Murphy refers to humanity as possessing greater powers—call them super powers—waiting to be refined, honed, and used, so that the individual can knowingly shape his or her world, rather than be shaped by chronic, rambling, and runaway thoughts. The seat of all power, Murphy taught, is emotionalized thought itself. All skills, abilities, and attainments are products of that greatest of powers.

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We all live by assumptions. This is true whether we call ourselves believers, agnostics, materialists, or any other range of descriptions for how we relate to surrounding forces. Murphy challenges you to live by the assumption of greatness—of your relation to, and ability to wield, the esoteric powers of thought. If you accept his premise, and if you test it and find it promising, that act will go a long way toward engendering the feeling state that Murphy identifies as the royal road to harnessing and using your thoughts as tools of creation. Feeling is the secret, wrote Murphy’s friend and contemporary Neville Goddard. I am certain that Murphy would have agreed in every way with that statement. Combining thought and feeling, he taught, is the gateway to realizing your super nature: your power to create.

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One of the points Murphy makes in this collection—especially in his essay Realize Your Desire—is that desire itself is sacred. Desire and need are goads to performance, ingenuity, and change. Without desire we would stagnate. We would suffer sameness and moribundity. We are conditioned to define desire as a longing; an unfulfilled desire can be painful. But Murphy’s encouragement is to greet desire as a hunger that delivers you. A hunger that pushes you to know yourself. If you follow his vision, you will discover yourself as a being of vaster dimensions than you imagined.

Desire, need, hunger—do you feel these things right now? You must if you picked up this book. Good. Those are the impulses that summon you to your super-self. To your realization that desire exists not to punctuate your sense of lack but to point you toward its fulfillment. Read this collection in a state of desire. And see if that desire, combined with the keys you find here, does not help you recall the being that you truly are.

—Mitch Horowitz

Your 12 Powers

This book is about the 12 powers within you. Sometimes they’re referred to as the 12 signs of the zodiac, the 12 sons of Jacob, the 12 months of the year, the 12 hours in the day, the 12 powers of Hercules, the 12 tribes of Israel, the 12 gates of heavenly Jerusalem, the 12 pillars of the temple of Heliopolis, the 12 stars of Janus, the 12 shields of Mars, the 12 mansions of the moon, and the 12 apostles symbolized and portrayed. The 12 powers of man are the elements of consciousness.

The zodiac means the holy belt of animals within you. In other words, infinity, or the 12 powers. These powers must be disciplined and purified before you become illumined, before you become the God-man walking the earth.

The 12 sons of Jacob represent the 12 disciples also. Their names and meanings are referred to in Genesis as Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and so on. In Matthew they’re called Andrew, Peter, James, and John. They mean the same thing. It is our mission and purpose in life to discipline these faculties so that a Godlike man will appear on earth. Then like Job we can say, Yet in my flesh shall I see God.

Job asked this question as well, Where wast thou when I laid the foundation of the earth? Declare if thou hast understanding. Whereupon are the foundations that are fastened, who had laid the cornerstone thereof, when the morning stars sang together, and the sons of God shouted for joy? This is not a question asked of God by Job, but it is really a question asked by man of his higher self.

We have forgotten who we are, and we are trying to remember. Original sin has nothing to do with the physical sex act. It is man believing in the wisdom of the world, of the opinions of man, and using his intellect destructively.

Original sin simply means that man has forgotten his divine origin and accepts the opinions of men as the truth. Consequently, he errs because he does not know that his own I Am-ness is the Lord God Almighty. He dwells therefore in the land of many gods and the belief in many powers.

The man who loves truth and practices the presence of God is like a magnetized piece of steel. The man who is asleep to God is like a demagnetized piece of steel. The magnetic current is there, but it is asleep within him.

When we dwell in the presence of God, the electronic and atomic structure of our body reforms and vibrates accordingly. Canst thou bring forth Mazzaroth in his season, or canst though guide Arcturus with his sons? When you look up the concordance for the word Mazzaroth, you find it’s the 12 powers of the zodiac, which are within yourself.

If we call our disciples forth and fully discipline them by prayer, by meditation and mystic visioning, we can answer all these questions propounded in that 38th chapter of Job. When man is completely purified consciously and subconsciously, the distillate brought forth is the illumined mind, called the God consciousness or cosmic consciousness.

Let each one determine for himself if he’s calling forth these faculties. Andrew, called Reuben in Genesis, means to behold the son. The son means the presence of God in you. Andrew is perception, perceiving the presence of God within you, or the truth of being. Andrew therefore means spiritual perception as the first faculty of man. Spiritual seeing means understanding, illumination, and comprehension, just like when you understand the answer to an algebraic equation. You say, I see.

This is not three-dimensional seeing, but seeing the truth about the outer fact. If you put a stick in a pond or a lake or a river, it seems to be bent. But it isn’t, it’s an optical illusion. For example if you see two tracks in a railroad they seem to come together at the horizon. They don’t; they’re parallel. That would be seeing the truth about things.

The spiritual person sees the law of cause and effect operating everywhere, and he knows there is a subjective pattern behind all manifestation in his body and affairs. He knows the realization of his desire is the truth that sets him free. When you begin to see spiritually, you see peace where discord is, love where hatred is, joy where sadness is, light where darkness is, and life where so-called death is.

You see the presence of God where confusion is. We look at the atmosphere, and we say that there is nothing there, yet it is teeming with life. We look into the heavens and we see some stars, but when we look through a telescope we see many more stars not discerned by the naked eye. Which is right, the telescope or the eye? Many think the sun rises in the east and sets in the west, but spiritual seeing or understanding knows this is untrue.

If someone is sick in your family, how do you see them? If you see them unwell, you’re not disciplining Andrew. Your spiritual perception, or knowing, must be perfect vision of health and happiness. If your mother is sick, see her home. She’s happy, joyous, and free, bubbling over with enthusiasm. You’re seeing the truth about her.

Do you resist, resent, or fight conditions in your home or office? If you do, you’re not calling Andrew to discipleship. If you detach yourself from the problem and focus on the solution or the way out, realizing an Almighty power is backing you up, you’re on the way to mastering this power.

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All these faculties are within you, remember, and the zodiac is within you. The 12 sons of Jacob are within you, the 12 disciples. Peter is the second disciple, or faculty of the mind. He symbolizes the rock of truth, an immutable conviction of good. Peter is the faculty of mind that realizes God indwells him and walks and talks in him.

Peter is the type of mind that knows that the I Am within you is God, and there is no other God. Peter is faithful to the end. That is, you’re faithful every step of the way, knowing omnipotence is moving on your behalf and, That none can stay His hand and say unto Him, what doest thou?

Do you say to the ideal or desire murmuring in your heart, I am too old, I do not have enough money, I do not know the right people? Do you say, for example, that due to conditions, inflation, the present administration, events, or circumstances, It is impossible for me to realize my objective?

If this is so, you’re not disciplining Peter, but actually robbing yourself of the joy of experiencing your ideal. The faculty of faith called Peter knows no obstacles and recognizes no master or Lord except his own I Am-ness, For I am the Lord. That is my name. My glory you shall not give to another. Neither shall you give my praise.

Do you pray for a little while, then give up and say, I tried it, but it doesn’t work? If you do, you must begin now to call Peter to discipleship, and you will realize the cherished desire of your heart. Peter is faith every step of the way, faith in the creative laws of life, faith in the goodness of God in the land of the living, faith in the great truth that you know your own thought is creative. What you feel, you attract, and what you imagine, you become.

We’re not talking about faith in creeds or dogmas or tradition. Peter, we’re told, denied his Lord three times and said, When the cock crows the third time, you will deny me, meaning that you will deny any man as your master. You will give no allegiance to any church or any man on the face of the earth, and you will recognize no man as master. You’ll recognize God as master.

Three, the cock crowing, means symbol of dawn, or birth, or light. It is also a symbol of victory, a symbol of triumph, a symbol of conviction. Three is always conviction. If you’re absolutely convinced that I Am is the Lord within you, and there is no other Lord, you’ll give no allegiance to any man or any institution or any creed or dogma. Your total allegiance will be to the God presence within you, and you’ll know no other God.

Where is your faith? Is your faith in the infinite intelligence within you, in the supreme power? If so, you are calling Peter to discipleship.

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James is the righteous judge. My judgment, he said, was his robe and diadem. This means when we begin to discipline the faculty called James, we decree wholeness, completeness, and perfection. Our judgment, meaning our conviction, is as a robe based on the truth, and the diadem beauty and perfection.

We ask ourselves, How is it in God in Heaven? All is harmony, peace, joy, abundance, security, right action, for that’s the infinite spirit within you where all is bliss. Then your verdict is based upon harmony, health, and peace.

The judgment, With what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged. The decision or the conclusion you come to about any person, whatever that thought is in your mind, you’re creating it in your own mind and your own body and circumstances. That’s why you don’t judge, for what you judge, you are judged. In other words, you create these in your own mind because you’re thinking it and feeling it.

Do you now condemn, criticize, or dwell in the shortcomings of others? If this is true, you’re not calling James to discipleship—you’re actually building these negative qualities within yourself. We fulfill that which we condemn. We become what we condemn. Look around and you will see ample evidence of this.

Are you incapable of hearing unpleasant things about another? Do you hear and realize only the good for the other? The student of truth disciplining James never gossips, criticizes, condemns, vilifies, or finds fault with people. If he